Verizon Wireless launches ZTE Salute

Yesterday, Verizon Wireless launched its first handset from manufacturer ZTE, the Salute. The Salute is a candybar shaped vertical slider-phone with a 2.4-inch scree, 1.3 megapixel camera, Bluetooth, and is VZ Navigator capable. The feature phone will retail for $19.99 after a $50 mail-in-rebate. Let’s just hope ZTE doesn’t venture into the high-end phone market anytime soon, as a ZTE LTE handset would be a mouthful. We’ve got the full press release after the break.

Verizon Wireless Salutes ZTE’s First Handset On The Nation’s Most Reliable Network

Easy-to-Use Slider Phone Comes Packed with All the Essential Features to Stay on Schedule

BASKING RIDGE, NJ, and RICHARDSON, TX — Verizon Wireless, the company with the nation’s largest and most reliable wireless 3G network, and ZTE USA, Inc., introduce the Verizon Wireless Salute™. Available today, the lightweight, slim slider phone offers up to 240 minutes of talk time and up to 220 hours of standby time on a single charge. It is a reliable handset with the most important features customers need in a single device, including a 1.3-megapixel camera, speakerphone and Bluetooth® headset support.

Social Beat application – offers a single point for accessing social networking sites, allowing customers to stay connected to Facebook®, Twitter™ and MySpace®, plus more than 50 news, sports and entertainment feeds

Backup Assistant(SM) application – saves and updates a copy of the phone’s address book to a secure website

VZ Navigator® capabilities for customers to receive audible turn-by-turn directions to millions of points of interest and share the directions with others

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Price and availability:

The Salute is available today at www.verizonwireless.com and in Verizon Wireless Communications Stores for $19.99 after a $50 mail-in rebate with a new two-year customer agreement. Customers will receive the rebate in the form of a debit card; upon receipt, customers may use the card as cash anywhere debit cards are accepted.

For additional information on Verizon Wireless products and services, visit a Verizon Wireless Communications Store, call 1-800-2 JOIN IN or go to www.verizonwireless.com.

Because this post is just an advertisement. There is no other reason possible to post it.

Wait a minute: it could also be a joke, or a post troll. Most likely just an ad.

Thablackguy

Lol i love how it says “Large” 2.4 inch screen… what a joke.

JoeTorch

Put Android 3.0 on this and maybe id consider it.

http://theandroidguru.blogspot.com The Android Guru

This is a P.O.C…why is this noteworthy???

PAPINYC

Wow, 1.3MP camera, can’t wait to bend-over
to buy this great new phone.

So, this will sit on the same display at Verizon next to the yesterday’s Blackberry make-up compact, the 9670, and Samsung’s Haven and Gusto; awesome line-up

(for my deceased Great Grandparents) !!

red014

This thing looks like a car stereo from WalMart.

MarkyFark

See… there is goes again. If this dumbphone was on T-mobile, you’d have a three times as many more comments about “this is why Tmo is #4″… yet when all the other carriers announce new dumbphones, no one ever makes those same comments. Here’s a clue: All carriers have more dumphones than smartphones…
But since so many fanboys crap on Tmo, I’ll drop a saracastic nugget like they would: ‘Oh, this is SOOOO why VZW is going out of business’. See how stupid that sounds? yep.